Sunday, 13 April 2014

OnCommand Unified Manager 6.1RC1 Quick Install Guide

I needed OCUM 6.1
in my lab to test. I’ve got a vSphere ESXi 5.5U1 standalone host and a vCenter
Server 5.5U1 (5.5U1 is not actually supported yet, the Installation and Setup Guide only goes up to ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.1!)
Remember, OCUM 6.1 is free, no license is required!

If all’s good you’ll be rewarded with “Deployment
Completed Successfully”.

Image: Deploying
OCUM Completed Successfully

Configuring the OCUM 6.1 VM

For a lab environment, you may want to adjust the OCUM
6.1 VM’s Virtual Machine Properties. Out of the box, OCUM 6.1 is configured
with 12 GB memory and 4 CPUs. It also comes with a CPU reservation of 9572 MHz
and Memory reservation of 12288 MB.

Image: OCUM VM
Properties - Hardware tab

Image: OCUM VM
Properties - Resources tab

Powering on the OCUM 6.1 VM

Click the ‘Power On’ button to boot the OCUM 6.1 VM
Appliance.

Note: On first
boot, the VMware Tools will automatically configure and update.

Configuring the OCUM 6.1 VM in the console:
Geographic Area

First prompt is for the ‘Geographic area’, enter as
appropriate.

Image: OCUM console
- configuring geographic area

Configuring the OCUM 6.1 VM in the console:
Time zone

Then you will be prompted for the ‘Time zone’, enter as
appropriate.

Image: OCUM console
- configuring time zone

Configuring the OCUM 6.1 VM in the console:
Username and Password

The next prompt is for the username and password for the
new maintenance user.

Image: OCUM console
- configuring maintenance user

And that’s it, we’ve deployed OCUM 6.1!

Image: OCUM console
- at OCUM login prompt

And can get to the login box via an internet browser at https://OCUM_IP_ADDRESS!